2014 CBD Top 100 Players Countdown

Here is College Baseball Daily’s annual look at the top players in college baseball. The list is based on personal observations from CBD Editor Brian Foley, CBD Assistant Editor Kate Moser and many other writers. We have also used many prospect lists from around the country to help out with our rankings. When possible, we have included videos so our readers can get a glimpse of the player in action. Feel free to leave your comments in the comment section of each post and if you want to discuss the entire list use the section below.

Appreciate your hard work in compiling names and putting your list together. Certainly subjective and your opinion is just as valid as anyone else, however some you list and in the order you list them, are admittedly head scratchers. You seem to put a lot of weight on summer league stats and downplay performances from their regular season. You seem to rank kids that do well in a smaller summer league (that did little in regular season conference games) over kids that performed extremely well in major conferences but for one reason or another didn’t have huge summers. An example here would be Xavier Turner at Vanderbilt. How you have some of those kids ranked over him is beyond me. The only explanation is because he had arm surgery and skipped summer league play, you lowered him in your rankings. Yet you list some kid from a far inferior conference, who barely played (or played well) over him because he had a decent summer in an average league? And don’t even get me started putting Manny Jr on this list…. That just shows you really put little effort into this list. I don’t say that to knock the kid, I hope he does well, however he’s never played a single college game and is going to a JC (and yes I know Central Arizona is a good JC program so don’t bother responding on that). I’ve seen him play 4 or 5 times which is probably 4 or 5 times more than you. Are you telling me there isn’t a single kid in college you could come up with that deserved to be on the list before him?

Again, I do apprecaite you doing this and I realize it’s an argument we could have all day long about who should or shouldn’t be listed and in what order. I just think more weight should be applied to existing college players from major programs that have proved themselves week in and week out against elite level competition, before you go off the rails listing some of the kids you list.

Ramirez was a pretty highly ranked summer player who tore it up…I am currently not at my computer to get the numbers for you but this list isn’t the best players in the SEC! Brian Foley Editor of College Baseball Daily

Kathy

I’ll save you the research, he played for the Far West League in California. League has now been disbanded due to lack of interest.

Anyway, thank you for the response, I do appreciate it. As I said, I do value your opinion (and the others who contributed) and yes this is all subjective, however to me I put more weight on regular season production as opposed to the summer league stuff where truthfully I don’t put any stock in a young man hitting .333 in a low to mid level league facing average pitching. I guess thats my point.

Why is Jeremy Null RHP from Western Carolina not on this list. By all stats he is definitely better than the #99 player Max Povse from UNCG. I might have a little bit of a bias but from what I can tell he should definitely be mentioned.

Povse was the top prospect in the Valley League this summer which is 6th best league at the worst.

In person

Saw John Tuttle, #75 Catawba @ Lynn University last Sat. While it was his first game of the year, and in fairness his defense was less than stellar, it was not an overwhelming performance against a decent D2 team in Lynn. I agree with Kathy’s point that there are small school players on this list that don’t seem to merit the ranking. The proven D1 players ranked below them have produced in a higher caliber of regular season baseball and even higher level of conferences. But I enjoy the list and the level of debate it is meant to incite.